#4689867 Posted on: 11/01/2013 12:59 AM
is there any reason to upgrade from previous revisions, like do new audio drivers have the same effect as say upgrading gpu drivers?

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#4690474 Posted on: 11/01/2013 05:10 PM
not necessarily, it can solve problems with the new 8 system, adds more ALC's support, but won't make a huge impact on the sound, unless it's a huge update or something really rare.

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#4690477 Posted on: 11/01/2013 05:11 PM
I wish they would list what the "Customizations" are.

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#4690519 Posted on: 11/01/2013 06:02 PM

I wish they would list what the "Customizations" are.

I am still using the Win7 Realtek Audio Driver V6.0.1.6699. from the Asus page of my Motherboard.
Every newer release than the one i am using, the ALC898 Audio CODEC that my Mobo uses is never on the list for supported codecs.
Although i have installed newer versions without any problems, despite the ALC898 codec not being on the supported list.

They should at least include a changes log for any bug fixes or optimizations
made to the drivers.

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#4690607 Posted on: 11/01/2013 07:33 PM
Very good driver without a single problem so far. Realtek has the best driver support. Both, Audio and Network always work flawlessly.

Meanwhile, ASUS for some reason released the version 6.0.1.7040 which is problematic, at least on my Motherboard. It doesn't give me option to select 5.1 with normal, Rear Speakers. It provides only Side speakers for 5.1.

This is newer anyway ( 6.0.1.7071 ).

If only Creative could provide as good driver support... I'd still be using my X-Fi Platinum while an order for a Z series would have been placed already. But... never again Creative. I hear the driver even for Z series on Win 8/8.1 have the same, ancient problems.

#4690648 Posted on: 11/01/2013 08:38 PM
....dislike when drivers are out for ONLY new born chipsets.....(well though ..... integrated ones)...

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#4690871 Posted on: 11/02/2013 12:23 AM
strange thing is a few sites have a version 2.74 posted. I guess it must be a beta or alpha of some kind.

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#4690874 Posted on: 11/02/2013 12:36 AM
I uninstalled and installed these several times yesterday. They thought my 5.1 rear speakers were plugged into the side jack instead of the rear jack. No sound would play from the rear or the center speakers. It was the same thing every time I installed them. Went back to 2.71 and everything was fine again.

Very good driver without a single problem so far. Realtek has the best driver support. Both, Audio and Network always work flawlessly.

Meanwhile, ASUS for some reason released the version 6.0.1.7040 which is problematic, at least on my Motherboard. It doesn't give me option to select 5.1 with normal, Rear Speakers. It provides only Side speakers for 5.1.

This is newer anyway ( 6.0.1.7071 ).

If only Creative could provide as good driver support... I'd still be using my X-Fi Platinum while an order for a Z series would have been placed already. But... never again Creative. I hear the driver even for Z series on Win 8/8.1 have the same, ancient problems.

....dislike when drivers are out for ONLY new born chipsets.....(well though ..... integrated ones)...

Why do you care? It isn't going to sound better and you're likely not going to get any addtional features worth caring about.

One thing I personally really dislike about Realtek is it's very hard to interpret which chips are good and which are bad. The product number doesn't seem to directly reflect that. Some of their chips are actually pretty good (such as the one in my computer now, ALC889) where I see no compelling reason to replace them, and then I've used computers where it was probably the worst sound source I've ever had to deal with and couldn't believe it was considered a usable product.

One thing I personally never understood is, assuming the integrated sound source supports high enough bit and sample rates, why get a discrete sound card for SPDIF purposes?

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#4691471 Posted on: 11/02/2013 10:36 PM
Thing I dislike in case of Realtek HD Audio drivers is two restarts requirement.
Although as I observed, before second restart the drivers are actually installed. Seems like that only thing for which second restart is required is running a control panel (hidden in tray) set up to launch at system start. But this program may be run manually without problem (and without second restart of course).

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#4691475 Posted on: 11/02/2013 10:40 PM
Thing I dislike in case of Realtek HD Audio drivers is two restarts requirement.
Although as I observed, before second restart the drivers are actually installed. Seems like that only thing for which second restart is required is running a control panel (hidden in tray) set up to launch at system start. But this program may be run manually without problem (and without second restart of course).

Almost every time windows wants to restart for something driver related, you really don't need to. Even video drivers don't seem to require a restart anymore (at least if you're updating them).

Depending on the distribution, linux doesn't even require you to do anything at all - just turn on the system and sound works.

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#4691481 Posted on: 11/02/2013 10:52 PM
Unfortunately one restart is actually required in case of Realtek HD Audio (or I do not know, how to omit it).

I wonder whether it is specific for Realtek HD Audio or is it a general rule for HD Audio (or just audio) drivers under Vista and newer?

This R272 version only allows me to select xx bit, 48000 Hz on the recording devices and will not allow 16 bit, 44100 Hz, so that I don't have re-sample audio files before making audio CDs with them. Even the mic input. If I wanted to use this for Ventrillo, or Skype, or something, I would not want it recording 48000 Hz for simple voice crap.

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#4697090 Posted on: 11/09/2013 02:02 AM
If your speakers work fine pretty much no need to update unless you see a big update.

Interesting but my card isn't based on the chip that guy is talking about. Otherwise he would have mentioned the wide range of X-Fi based cards.

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#4697648 Posted on: 11/09/2013 09:37 PM
R273 (6.0.1.7083) is out now. It has the same problems as R272 and Dolby Digital Live (5.1 encoding over optical connection) is missing from the Realtek Control Panel.

R271 is still the best version on my rig. Everything works. No problems.

I guess which Sound chip you have on your board as to which interface and driver you end up with. The Gigabyte board in my woman's, is the same chip but intel based. Same download, uses an older driver. 6.0.1.6888So who knows?